So how much are the federal agencies' electricity bills costing you? Using the Freedom of Information Act, McCarren and crew requested six months of utility bills for more than a dozen federal buildings in DC.

The results: between $200,000 and more than a million a month. Much of this racks up from keeping empty buildings illuminated at night--including the Environmental Protection Agency headquarters.

What was that Obama was saying last night in theState of the Union address about being stewards of our precious energy resources? (Hat tip: E. Frank Stephenson)

Huggins is a research fellow and former director of outreach with PERC as well as a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Her association with PERC goes back several years, although she has recently embarked on a new venture as the manager of economic initiatives for the American Prairie Reserve. Huggins coauthored...

Founded 30 years ago in Bozeman, Montana, PERC—the Property and Environment Research Center—is the nation’s oldest and largest institute dedicated to improving environmental quality through property rights and markets.

The goal of PERC’s programs is to fully realize the vision of establishing “PERC University,” where scholars, students, policy makers, and others convene to expand the applications of free market environmentalism.

PERC's fellowships share a common goal of exposing new scholars, students, journalists, and policy makers to free market environmentalism, as well as enable scholars already familiar with FME to explore new applications.